Love

Diana: Fourth Decade, Sonnet 7

by Henry Constable 156?–1604?

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)

Love

The richest relic Rome did ever view
Was' Cæsar's tomb; on which, with cunning hand,
Jove's triple honours, the three fair Graces, stand,
Telling his virtues in their virtues true.
This Rome admired; but dearest dear, in you
Dwelleth the wonder of the happiest land,
And all the world to Neptune's furthest strand,
For what Rome shaped hath living life in you.
Thy naked beauty, bounteously displayed,
Enricheth monarchies of hearts with love;
Thine eyes to hear complaints are open laid;
Thine eyes' kind looks requite all pains I prove;
That of my death I dare not thee accuse;
But pride in me that baser chance refuse.

MLA

Constable, Henry. “Diana: Fourth Decade, Sonnet 7.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/31/.

Chicago

Constable, Henry. “Diana: Fourth Decade, Sonnet 7.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/31/.

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